sans souci

Example Sentences

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He threw me one of those sans souci smiles he’d been tossing at me since the beginning of the year.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely

The look of indifference, the rather mocking smile, the sans souci, which are the chief characteristics of his face, altered.

From The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel by Glyn, Elinor

"Let us seek, even while we live, to be sans souci, and as evidence that I will strive for this, this house shall be called 'Sans-Souci!'"

From Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

What a contrast between the sans souci gait of persons at bathing places and the resorts of pilgrims and the precipitate haste in commercial centres!268.Meyendorff,

From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)

The other two took no trouble with the pack-animals, but rode on in front, conversing sans souci, and in a somewhat jocular vein.

From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne